If a sinkhole appeared under my bed, I would be... confused, since my bed is on the second floor. Clearly some bending of spacetime would be involved, or possibly a black hole. Either way, I would not want to sleep above a sinkhole.

Considerinh that my mom would have a coop full of chickens if only zoning law would permit it, I imagine she'd be rather pleased to wake up one day and discover a live chicken in every pot in the house. It would be a sign! Build the coop, zoing law be damned!

As for me, I wouls immedately check the tiny I-only-cook-two-eggs-at-once saucepan, to see if it's an adorable baby chick, or a valuable mini chicken in there. (Or do pans not count as pots? Saucepans are pot-like...)

But "a chicken in every pot" was from Herbert Hoover's 1928 presidential campaign, prior to the Great Depression. The huge economic expansions of the 20's led many to believe that poverty would be eradicated. Hoover was merely promising what people believed to be inevitable: that the economic prosperity would lead to "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage."

I think the sink hole threat would still be valid, as most kids probably haven't even heard of Fraggle Rock, let alone watched it and would be excited about going down a sink hole in the hopes of finding Fraggles.

Hehehe, grues. I thought they liked adventurers and enchanters, not news?

Why can't grues like news too? How can a grue not like news when it's being presented by mad people?

Anyways, that story about the 'dead' person waking up isn't quite as bad as something that happened to an old high-school teacher of mine. He had once worked as an undertaker. There was one time when he was going to someone's house to take care of a dead body when something very strange happened. The dead person sat up a few seconds after they put him on the stretcher to move him, and asked "What are you doing?" After that, he layed back down and stayed dead. The only way I can think that would be worse is if the dead man would have asked "Who turned out the lights?"